Stakes Quotes
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I love things where I can be physical and I so love high stakes, and you usually don't get that unless you're doing a play or an action movie.
Will Patton -
No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Power and wealth are not two of my main stakes.
Ratan Tata -
Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.
William Shakespeare -
The success of all of our kids is paramount. ... We can't just lock up everyone. The stakes are high.
Brian Baker Bad Religion -
What's a hero, if not for its journey. I think you're going to recontextualize what saving the world means, and I think that you will be satisfied with the stakes. That's all I can say about that.
J. H. Wyman -
We all have a stake in the battle against Ebola.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf -
To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books - this overwhelms the rest, and beside it one's life becomes very small.
Paul Auster
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Challenging American leadership is not at stake.
Vladimir Putin -
For myself, if I am to stake all I have and hope to be upon anything, I will venture it upon the abounding fullness of God - upon the assurance that, as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are His ways higher than our ways, and His thoughts than our thoughts.
Henry Norris Russell -
Provided he skates up to his potential and doesn't get sick or anything like that, I think he's got a fairly good chance. My biggest concern is that he will get distracted by it all. Physically, no one can beat him at 1,500, 5,000 or 10,000. He's just got to be really focused on what's going on and not get all wrapped up in the potential distractions.
Eric Heiden -
Defiance was only amusing when the stakes were low.
Courtney Milan -
Why the transfer of decisions from those with personal experience and a stake in the outcome to those with neither can be expected to lead to better decisions is a question seldom asked, much less answered.
Thomas Sowell -
There are more stakes in Mary and Jane, which is always good.
Deborah Kaplan
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The need for some venture of faith still remains; one must stake one's life upon something.
Henry Norris Russell -
Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes.
William Landay -
I feel like, in a lot of shows where the woman is in charge, the woman is this ball buster and the guy is sort of weak and spineless. And that's never been my experience in a relationship. I think it's much more interesting that the guy is the boss. And there are stakes.
Whitney Cummings -
Strictly speaking, Rosneft is not a company. Let us not forget that BP has a stake in Rosneft and BP is a British company.
Vladimir Putin -
The challenge is high. The stakes are important. I think it's manageable.
William Hedgcock Webster -
The stakes are nary a problem to me, as I do not abide by Sir Isaac's law!
Evan Bourne
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To be first-rate at anything you have to stake your all. Nobody's an artist 'on the side'.
Eleanor Clark -
My workday is non-stop break-neck high stakes and high pressure. Every day.
Hank Phillippi Ryan -
Burning stakes do not lighten the darkness.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec -
We would be 1,500 years ahead if it hadn't been for the church dragging science back by its coattails and burning our best minds at the stake.
Catherine Fahringer